For a bit of fun I recently installed Horizon Zero Dawn on my M2 Air using Crossover, just to see how it fared.
I got a perfectly respectable 25fps, or thereabouts.
This is a three year old, fanless, entry-level laptop, playing a game that’s not even written for its architecture at a rate that’s entirely playable. It’s actually crazy how good that hardware is.
The last Intel mini from 2018 is still going for serious money because it’s the last one with upgradable RAM, albeit with soldered storage. The 2014 (which I have, running Debian as my home server) has upgradable storage, but soldered RAM.
I’ve recently spun a SearXNG server, and overall I’ve been quite impressed. Obviously, Google is not one of the sources.
I was on holiday on Greece when they dropped the iOS update that opened up third party app stores, so installed it over shitty wifi to see what I could install.
Nope, my account is British, so no go.
Fuckers.
lol
Imagine giving a shit what a sofa shagger thinks about anything.
Oh man, does that mean my sub to yt-dlp is going to go up as well?
WAY AHEAD OF YOU MATEY
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Though in fairness, it is free.
I quite like the idea of people just not engaging with this.
Can’t play the latest AAA because I can’t afford the equipment for it? No worries, there’s literally thousands of other games out there.
More realistically though, people will end up subbing to a streaming service, which is almost certainly what the companies would prefer.
Everything in the US is legal provided you’re wealthy enough, or “Christian” enough.
Yeah, I really enjoyed the first couple, and The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a really beautiful little thing that ties in to Life Is Strange 2, but stands on its own nicely.
LiS2 didn’t touch me as much as the first, and :Before the Storm, but it’s still enjoyable enough. I haven’t played True Colors though.
As someone with ADHD: All of them.
the janitor isnt there
You need to watch a little further…
I’ll never forget; 2014, iOS 8 had just come along with some huge advances in Siri. I’m driving across West London to pick up my wife, who’s just text me about something. I figured I’d reply by dictating the message to Siri.
After five attempts and absolutely zero success, I just pulled over and tapped out a text.
Apart from setting the odd timer, I don’t think I ever used Siri again after that. Not on purpose, any way.
Back when I used an iPhone, I had a few automations through Shortcuts, but nothing critical. Then I got a Pixel, put Graphene on it, and started learning how Android works. At the same time I went all in on Home Assistant over Alexa.
It’s been over a year now, so I figured I’d see what I can automate between my phone and my house.
The short answer is: nothing.
There is absolutely nothing that I need my phone to do automatically. Not a single task I need it to accomplish on my behalf.
I saw a post on Reddit a few weeks ago in the Tasker sub. A guy was talking about how one of his automations was to send a randomly selected affirmation or quote from some website to each of his loved ones at 7am. I’m still not quite over that level of psychopathy. The notion that the correct way to show affection is to have an automation randomly select a message to send them every morning.
Being a Veteran Of The Internet, I know to take screengrabs with a pinch of salt. I’ll do my due diligence, thank you!
And, well, I wish I hadn’t. Because now I know this is real and oh my fucking god
Thinking on it, I suppose the biggest cost is in terms of my time.
Up until this point, I’ve put quite a bit of time into learning how things work, and how to deploy things I’d find useful, and that can replace paid for services. Even now things are set up and running, I still have a tendency to fiddle with things. I’ve spent far more time on my Navidrome server than I ever did on Apple Music, put it that way. The same amount of time listening, mind.
Technically, £0
I do have use Mullvad VPN, but not really for any of my hosting, and I do have a Hetzner VPS for my own site, which I have started using to access things. But I can access it all with Tailscale, which is free, as long as I can remember port numbers.
But with those taken into account;
Mullvad: £5 VPS: £15 Domain registration: £35pa
So all told it’s about £22 a month.
I do need to look into donating to some of the services I use the most though.
Electricity $200 Off-site backup $130 FOSS project donations $800 Thigh-high socks $3600 Domains £150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Dunno. Apple do what Apple do. Presumably there was a cost benefit to soldering/unsoldering components.
As for mine: it’s pretty solid. It’s a 2014/with a 3ghz i5 and 8gb of Ram, and honestly, the RAM will be the issue if I spin up much more.
It’s currently running
and constantly hovers around 6.5gb in active use.
That era of Macs were mid-SSD, so mine came with the option for a Fusion drive that wasn’t originally specced, so I bought an adapter and now it has / and /boot on a 250gb M.2 and /home on a 1tb SATA SSD. And a 2TB external HDD is where Nextcloud lives. Honestly, I almost never have any trouble with it. It falls over once every six weeks or so, but a quick reboot and its back up on rails again.